mainland
noun
the principal land of a country, region, etc., as distinguished from adjacent islands or a peninsula.
mainlands
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pluralof mainland.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The Berlin-based ethnographer Alexa Clay, who studied change agents in her book, “The Misfit Economy,” talks about mainlands, islands and peninsulas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all found nowhere else but on their island, yet display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
To reach that stage, there must be mutual confidence, on the island and the mainlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an afterthought, he added, “I think,” above the page, as if to signal his last point of departure from the mainlands of biological and theological thought.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
